Section

Orders

Every Coalition Provisional Authority order from 1 to 100: the binding decisions that changed Iraq’s institutions and laws.

99of 100
72have Arabic text in the archive
27no Arabic text in the archive (transcription available)
15amending
31in a thematic collection

Issued by month

Click a month to filter the list below. The date comes from the official code in the text.

Week-by-week rhythm of issuance

April 2003January 2004June 2004

Each square is a week; darker means more issued.

Arabic text availability by month

has Arabic text in the archive no Arabic text in the archive

Most cited

Number of documents across the whole archive that mention the document by its number or official code.

Amending orders and what they amend

Critical-reading questions

Questions, not verdicts, each with its evidence, method and confidence. Click an indicator to open it in the Reading Lab.

No Arabic text in the archive: before and after April 2004

The pattern is clear in the archive. In May and June 2004 alone 21 orders were issued, 17 of them with no Arabic text in the archive; all of them have an Arabic transcription from the Dorar al-Iraq legal wiki, taken from the Iraqi Official Gazette.

Length of texts

Longest: Order 94 (180k characters), Order 40 (172k characters), Order 64 (172k characters), Order 56 (100k characters), Order 95 (62k characters)

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